Law Courts of the World

Visitors to The Dickson Poon School of Law can enjoy the School’s newly installed ‘Law Courts of the World’ – a series of images that captures the buildings and spaces associated with legal work and practice.

11 images are on display in the Moot Court and Ante Room in Somerset House East Wing depicting images from the Royal Courts of Justice in London, to the Corbusier designed High Court of Punjab and Haryana. 

Professor Ben Bowling explains the thinking behind the exhibition:

‘Law Courts of the World’ is the first of many ongoing photographic/visual projects at The Dickson Poon School of Law.  Our overall goal is to connect our faculty,current students and alumni by visualising the kind of work that we do and the places that we do it. These projects will bring to life the walls of our home in Somerset House East Wing and be displayed on our website and through our publications. Law courts hold a special place in both the history of civic architecture and in the administration of justice. Not all law is practiced in a courtroom, but the court represents the place of the law, the space within which justice is done and seen to be done.'

Get involved

Staff, students, and alumni are invited to get involved by sending in their images of where they are when they, practice, study and discuss law.

'We welcome all and any images of the buildings in which you work – whether these are the grand High Courts or the often more prosaic lower courts, or even unusual settings such as those occurring in open air. Courtroom interiors are often intriguing with interesting iconography, use of space,light and materials. The court is of course a reference also to the people who work within it – we would welcome group portraits of judges and magistrates in the setting of their courts. Perhaps you have court artists who sketch trials in process. This initial project is limited only by the imagination of our contributors.'

Read more about submitting your images to the project.

See 'Law Courts of the World' on Flickr.

Find out more about visual arts in The Dickson Poon School of Law.